I’ve been talking a lot about media recently, so I’m just going to go with that and keep it up. There is just so much to say on the topic that once I get going it’s hard to stop. Last week I presented my new group of college students with their Sexuality in the Media [...]
Archives for February, 2011
Sexaulity in the Media Wednesday!
This is the last of the SiM Wednesdays for a little while. But it’s a really, really good one.
This image comes from one of my online students. She was looking at what the media portrays as beautiful. She was annoyed by what she found - that most of the images of beauty look very monotonous. [...]
Negotiating the road to adulthood
I have a friend with a teenage son. Actually, I have quite a few friends with teenage sons, but I’m thinking of one in particular this morning. She called me the other day because her 15 year old, after a day with a particularly high number of pestering questions and little annoyances, had [...]
Sexuality in the Media Wednesday!
Last fall one of my students was looking at toys and how gender and sexuality are represented in toys. I think she was expecting to dislike what she found, but she ended up being truly horrified. To counteract the very narrow messages that gender-specific toys send, she created this public service announcement to remind us [...]
Sexuality in the Media Wednesday!
I have been terribly remiss in posting the truly outstanding projects that my students have created the past few semesters. I want to address that, so I am going to post one of the media images my students created each Wednesday for the next few weeks.
First, and most prominently, a song. Last summer [...]
